Wendy John, Head of Global Diversity and Inclusion at Fidelity Investments says she had a non-traditional path to her DEI leadership role. Those who have followed along with our series profiling such leaders, however, are probably well aware that there really isn’t a “traditional” path to such roles for most of the executives who hold them. Rather than starting a career in a junior HR or diversity role, most of the leaders we speak to got their start in a completely different corporate function altogether and only discovered their passion and aptitude for DEI work after being exposed to it—or the lack of it—while on the job.
